Bill Brown (31 July 1912 – 16 March 2008) was an Australian cricketer.
A right-handed opening batsman, he played 22 Tests between 1934 and
1948, captaining his country in one of them. His partnership with Jack
Fingleton in the 1930s is regarded as one of the finest in Australian
Test history. In the 1938 tour of England, Brown had 1,854 runs,
including an unbeaten 206 that saved Australia from defeat in the second
Test, and was honoured as one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year.
The outbreak of the Second World War cost Brown his peak years as a
player, time that he spent in the Royal Australian Air Force. After the
war, he was a member of Don Bradman's Invincibles, who toured England in
1948 without defeat. He performed reasonably well in the tour matches,
but struggled while batting out of position in the middle order during
the first two Tests, and was dropped from the Test team.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Brown_%28cricketer%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1777:
The Second Continental Congress passed a resolution allowing
French nobleman the Marquis de Lafayette to enter the American
revolutionary forces as a major general.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_du_Motier,_Marquis_de_Lafayette>
1954:
A team of Italian climbers became the first to reach the summit
of K2, the world's second-highest mountain.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K2>
1975:
The Troubles: In a botched paramilitary attack, three members
of the popular Miami Showband and two Ulster Volunteer Force gunmen were
killed in County Down, Northern Ireland.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Showband_killings>
1991:
Soviet Special Purpose Police Unit troops killed seven
Lithuanian customs officials in Medininkai in the most serious attack of
their campaign against Lithuanian border posts.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_OMON_assaults_on_Lithuanian_border_posts>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
adret:
(geography) The sun-facing side of a mountain.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/adret>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom
and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and
a powerful one too powerful.
--Primo Levi
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Primo_Levi>